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THE ARTIST'S LITTLE BOY (Happy birthday, Ben Heine)

There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
__Pablo Piccaso

Teach me to paint!
Teach me to paint the sun like you, daddy!

It’s better that your life be painted first, my child,
And from its color you might then paint the sun.

You mean like you?

No… I mean like you.

© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman

Happy Birthday, Ben!

(Ben Heine - Cartoons)

BREATHING ART

(Ben Heine - Cartoons)

Ceaselessly giving.
Art opens inward
The generous spirit of the heart.

Art widens the eyes,
The soul,
Then seeks you within it.

Rigid and hot,
It needs freedom, faith
To consider where it’s taken you,

Like dipping your mind’s brush
Into the cleansing water,
Thoughts swim, breathing like fish.

Now given to, submerged,
Bathed in the shape of it,
What wrangles your soul?

If you find your breath full...
Think not of the artist’s truth,
Think but of your own;

Spirit and the heart of hope
Weep
And question why…

© 2007 mrp/thepoetryman